Sir John Maitland Salmond - Chester Terrace, London, UK
N 51° 31.773 W 000° 08.725
30U E 697997 N 5712578
This English Heritage blue plaque tells us that Marshal of the RAF. Sir John Maitland Salmond, "lived here 1928 - 1936". The plaque is attached to a building on the north east side of Chester Terrace.
Waymark Code: WMXGT8
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/11/2018
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The wording on the blue English Heritage plaque reads:
English Heritage
Marshal
of the
Royal Air Force
Sir
John Maitland
Salmond
1881 - 1968
RAF Commander
lived here
1928 - 1936
Wikipedia has an article about John Salmond that tells us:
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Maitland Salmond, GCB, CMG, CVO, DSO & Bar (17 July 1881 – 16 April 1968) was a British military officer who rose to high rank in the Royal Flying Corps and then the Royal Air Force. During the First World War he served as a squadron commander, a wing commander and then as General Officer Commanding the RAF on the Western Front towards the end of the war. He went on to be Air Officer Commanding British Forces in Iraq in the early 1920s when he halted a Turkish invasion and sought to put down a Kurdish uprising against King Faisal, the British-sponsored ruler of Iraq. He was Chief of the Air Staff in the early 1930s and bitterly opposed the position taken by British politicians at the World Disarmament Conference in Geneva, which would have led to the UK's complete aerial disarmament. In the event the talks broke down when Adolf Hitler withdrew from the Conference in October 1933.